presbyteress
English
Noun
presbyteress (plural presbyteresses)
- (obsolete) A female presbyter.
- 1863, Robert Jamieson, A commentary, critical and explanatory, on the Old and New Testaments:
- Not literally that a presbyter who does not rule well [Alford], or of a presbyteress widow, or of the deacons.
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References
- presbyteress in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
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